Anyone else given the false impression we'd actually have to build the Nexus?

When I realized that my mining was for nothing (like sometimes as small as 4 ore to 34) I never turned the mining on again. (wich was a win since SAM did not shout out that here can mine every twenty seconds.) But when I realized that the mining was just for me to get a new armor i stop altogether. (Its far easier just to breakdown stuff, and no SAM telling me I can do it.

I had the vision that me mining was something the Nexus needed to finish, or my colony needed, and that I when finding a miningspot was to setup a mine for the colony.
Next let down was the Colony itself, since it was kind of big deal to chose, and it was not.
Third let down was Pod release, totally b-shit, it should have impacted the story how you chose to put people to work.

But the absolute letdown was that I/Ryder did not discover anything, and my twin thought I did.

Uprising half of let say 20K people if that many was awake decides when they run from Nexus to settle on 2 diffrent planets, not the closest one where the Nexus decided to put down their people, because a planet are to small for 10K people. So they take their shuttles to 2 diffrent unknowns instead gambling high. so 5K per planet, and for one planet it is enough to kick of the invaders that have taken a whole planets of Angarians? 5K is not even enough to take Ireland, maybe Island since they only have 200K people living there.

Its strange that non of the planets have different climate then one. And non of the planets have more then one region to explore.

Yup. Kept hoping something would change, maybe unlock other areas or something.

who said we had to build the nexus?

i'm glad that we don't have to do it
it would be boring

I expected the exterior to change as the game progressed but not for us to have an active hand in its construction. There were details that was added over time, though, like the asari and salarian ark.

I was very happy to see how the contents of the interior changed as the game progressed and even depending on some of the choices like the angaran residents. I liked those details and it was very much what I was hoping I'd see.

Oh, these videos. These goddamn beatiful videos that made me ultrahyped for the game and preorder it at the first chance after seeing these...

False advertising for sure. I hate it how different the game came out to be as to what these videos are advertising.

To explain in narrative terms, the narrative is different - the Hyperion arrives (for some reason) much later after the Nexus, where the whole uprising already happened, that's why it was already mostly completed.

Well yes, you could argue that "those were just the plans" of the initiative and you wake up in this post-uprising phase, where a lot of the stuff has already settled, tough I expected my hero to be there, on board with Jien Garson and start building it, but instead we get... meh...

These trailers, man. They promised so much. So goddamn much, I shouldn't have fallen for this.

Yeah, I wasn't expecting anything crazy just for it to be built overtime. Kinda sad would have been a very nice touch.

I figured the cleaning up of clutter during the first third of the game was supposed to be symbolic of the repairs they were making.

I hadn't had the impression building the Nexus would be part of the game though - there's a prequel novel that's set on the Nexus, so from that it seemed obvious to me that the thing was going to exist in a mostly-complete state before the game starts.

I assumed it would look more complete the more Arks we recovered. Guess not.

Technically they were right. There weren't ABC endings, there were RGB endings